Script 3rd Draft

The Divided

Gary Welsh

INT - Workshop - Afternoon

Fade In

Black screen, flickers to a view of a room. It's the creators workshop. We are looking through the eyes of Rob, a sentient robot and our protaganist. There's a heads-up display over-layed on the screen. A warning about backup power running low flashes on and off in one corner and the screen occasionally has a garbled flicker as he looks around the environment.

Cut to

We cut to an external view, looking down at the robot. He is slumped against a wall. The doorway of the workshop is in front of him with an inner doorway on his right and the main area of the workshop to his left. There is a largish hole in his chest plate where he has been shot. He looks down at the wound then moves his hand to it. We can see what looks like a damaged power cell/battery in the open wound.

Cut to

POV shot. The shot pans counter clockwise as he looks to his left. The pan stops when he focuses on a human foot showing from behind a work desk. A gun is visible on the floor beside him.

Cut to

A shot from behind the workdesk looking up. Rob walks into the shot and is looking down.

Cut to

Rob POV shot. We see an old man. Dead from a gunshot wound to the chest. This is the creator. The man who ran the scrapyard and who built Rob and Six.

The shot pans up a and to the right where we see an image capture/photo display unit. The screen is damaged. The image is one of the creator Rob and Six happy together.

Fade to Black

Fade In

EXT - Scrapyard - Day

It's a different time. Earlier. The workshop is cleaner and brighter. Theres no dust or debris or damage anywhere and the man from the previous scene is alive.

Shot of the creator building Rob. Rob is just a torso at this time. The creator pulls back a little and smiles. Six appears from one side behind the creator with some salvaged parts. The creator looks up and smiles at him.

Cut to

Close up of a piece of scrap sitting on a metal fence/table. A bug crawls into the screen from one side. A gun shot hits the can. The focus switches to the background where we can see the two robots.

Cut to

Rob and Six. Six has helped Rob aim by adjusting his arm. They look at each other after the shot hits and six puts his hand on Robs shoulder. The creator sits in a rocking chair behind them smiling.

Cut to

The three of them posing for the photograph we saw earlier.

Cut to

Shot of the 3 from behind looking at some blueprints the creator has pinned up on a wall for a giant communications tower/aerial. Rob and the creator look engrossed in the blueprints while Six is clearly not grasping the intricacies. He is slightly apart from Rob and the creator in this shot.

Cut to

INT- Workshop - Night

Close shot of Rob and the creator working on the comm tower. Six is in the background on his own.

Cut to

EXT - Scrapyard - Day

Six is alone in the yard standing holding something in his hand.

Cut to

Shot of Six hand. We see the bug.

Cut to

Closeup of Six face. He is studying the bug.

Cut to

Medium shot of six. We cant see his palm but we see him close his fist.

SOUND

CRUNCH

He opens it again.

Cut to

Close up of six face again. Studying the now obviously dead bug

Cut to

INT - Workshop - Night

Rob moves to the door of the workshop and looks out. Six is just standing still in the yard, staring away into the distance.

Cut to

Closeup on Six. He turns his head slowly to look at Rob. Holds the look for a second then looks back towards the town.

Fade to Black

A gunshot sounds.

SOUND

BANG

Fade in

INT - Workshop Small Room - Night

Close on Rob as his eyes light up and he reacts to the sound.

He is in some sort of standby mode.

Cut to

Rob POV. He looks up from the floor to directly ahead of him. Six is standing right in front of him with the gun aimed at him. The creators leg is visible in the background like in the very first scene.

He looks at Rob for a second then fires.

SOUND

BANG

Cut to Black

EXT - Graveyard - Early Evening

Fade to

Rob burying the creator outside. It’s a graveyard near the crash site/scrapyard. This is where casualties of the town and the initial crash have been buried.  It's an aerial view. He is standing over the grave (a pile of stones) of the already buried creator.

Cut to

Then we can cut to a closer view, midshot of Rob standing over the grave. In one hand he has a shovel in the other he is awkwardly holding the gun. The creators hat is on his back tied round his neck with some string. He turns his head.

Cut to

POV shot. Looking at the grave, he slowly holds up the gun and looks at it. Then he looks to his left. In the distance we can see the town. We also see the backup power still flickering and substantially lower now.

Fade to

EXT – Plains - Evening

Long shot. Rob is walking to the town. He is sort of limping. In the back right we can see the crash site/scrapyard.

Fade to

EXT - Town - Dusk

Rob arriving at the town. We can see its lifeless.

Cut to

Rob walking into the settlement. He pauses in the middle of the street and looks around. We see the trail of death that Six has left. There are corpses and damage strewn around the street.

Cut to

Shot of the Salloon. The sign flickers "End of the Road".

Cut to

INT - Salloon - Dusk

Shot of the salloon entrance from inside. The door that still works slides open and Rob limps in.

Cut to

Close on Robs eyes.

Cut to

Rob POV shot. The shot pans across the setting. Sitting on the stage is Six. Backup power is now flickering dangerously low

Cut to

Closeup shot on Six' eyes. They flicker to life. He looks up.

Cut to

Shot behind Rob. Six is visible in the background.  Six stands and is shrouded in shadow with highlights gleaming off one side of him from the windows and his eyes. Six starts towards Rob slowly. Rob unholsters the gun.

Cut to

Close on Six again. Rob now has the gun pointed directly at him.

Cut to

Closeup of Robs eyes.

Cut to

Close on Six eyes.

Cut to

Profile shot. Rob on the right and Six on the left with the bar in the background. Rob is aiming at Six chest

Cut to

Closeup of the trigger as rob squeezes it.

Cut to

Close shot of Robs head. His eyes are dark he has run out of power.

Cut to

Close on Six. Like he is studying Rob as with the bug.

Cut to

Medium shot. Six takes out his battery and puts it in Rob. Then gently re-positions Robs aim so the gun is pointing directly at his head.

Cut to

Profile shot of the two as before. With the gun still aiming firmly at Six head. Robs eyes start to light up again.

Cut to

POV shot from Six. The gun pointed right at him.

Cut to Black

A gunshot sounds

SOUND

BANG